Changelog for VirtualBox 5.2

This page lists all changes of the VirtualBox 5.2 Downloads.
All branches: 5.2 · 5.1 · 5.0 · 4.3 · 4.2 · 4.1 · 4.0

VirtualBox 5.2.8 (released 2018-02-27)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: added support for FSGSBASE, PCID, INVPCID CPU features for guests
• VMM: fixed EMM386 issue with detecting suitable page frame base (bug #10022)
• Front end: Linux: prevent VM window from jumping and auto-resizing to tiny size after resizing it on HiDPI screen
• Front end: Linux: fixed seamless regression caused by wm_class functionality (bugs #12534, #17304)
• Front end: switched to https downloads
• Front end: fixed crash while opening New machine wizard (s.a. forums topic 86592)
• Audio: added support for distinguishing recording sources in the PulseAudio mixer on the host when multiple VMs are running
• Audio: various fixes for the DirectSound backend
• Video recording: added better file seeking support and fixed playback of recorded files with certain players (e.g. Firefox)
• Audio: various fixes for Windows guest surround setups
• Audio: various fixes for HDA emulation
• Serial: fixed an issue where the serial port parameters in the emulation and host serial port got out of sync (bug #17116)
• Storage: fixed overwriting certain INQUIRY data for the DVD/CD drive attached to a AHCI controller
• Storage: fixed handling VMDK images created by Amazon EC2 VM export
• Network: fixed PXE boot regression in e1000
• Network: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
• 3D: add environment variable to configure presenting 3D content on main thread (see bug #13653)
• Windows hosts: fixed indiscriminate binding of NDIS5 bridged driver, that caused PPPOE malfunction (bugs #16407, #17489)
• Windows guests: fixed incorrect function error when using shared folders in certain applications (bug #14118)
• Linux guests: Linux 4.15 support (bugs #17311, #17320, #17282)
• Linux guests: fixed black screen when 3D enabled in guests (bug #17463, 5.2.6 regression)
• Linux guests: suppress setuid and setgid in shared folders

VirtualBox 5.2.6 (released 2018-01-15)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• GUI: fixed occasional screen corruption when host screen resolutio n is changed
• User interface: increase proposed disk size when creating new VMs for Windows 7 and newer
• User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
• VMM: Fixed problems using 256MB VRAM in raw-mode VMs
• Audio: implemented support for audio playback and recording for macOS guests
• Audio: further timing improvements for Windows 10 guests
• Linux hosts: fixed problem accessing mini-toolbar under XFCE (bug #17280, contributed by Dusan Gallo)

VirtualBox 5.2.4 (released 2017-12-19)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• User interface: Adjusting desktop file for X11 window managers (bug #17312)
• User interface: various high resolution display adjustments
• Audio: fixed SB16 volume handling (5.2 regression)
• Audio: various fixes
• USB/OHCI: fixed a problem where OHCI emulation might sporadically drop data transfers
• Linux hosts: fixed screen corruption when the host screen changes and a virtual machine window is maximized
• X11 Guest Additions: fixed a hang at the GNOME Shell login screen with 3D enabled (5.2 regression, bugs #17189 and #17190)

VirtualBox 5.2.2 (released 2017-11-24)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
• User interface: added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images
• User interface: various improvements for the virtual media manager
• VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more (5.1.0 regression)
• Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI (bug #17196)
• Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku)
• Serial: fixed hanging I/O when using named pipes on Windows (5.2.0 regression; bug #17227)
• Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts
• USB/OHCI: improved behavior so that the controller state after a VM reset is closer to the initial state after VM start
• EFI: fixed HFS+ driver which in rare cases failed to access most files on a volume
• Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest (bug #15782)
• Linux hosts: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #17267)
• X11 hosts: better handle WM_CLASS setting (bug #12534)
• Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #12534)
• Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14
• Linux guests: fixed various 5.2.0 regressions (bug #17163)
• Bridged networking: fixed duplicate EtherType in VLAN/priority tags on Linux (5.2.0 regression; bug #17277)

VirtualBox 5.2.0 (released 2017-10-18)

This is a major update. The following major new features were added:

• VM export to Oracle Cloud (OPC)
• Unattended guest installation (bug #5810; see the manual for more information)
• Overhauled VM selector GUI (improved tools VM / global tools handling, new icons)
• Added experimental audio support for video recording

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: fixed reason for recent Linux kernels on also recent CPU models warning about "XSAVE consistency problem"
• GUI: Virtual Media Manager rework allowing to manage media attributes, like size, location, type and description
• GUI: Host-only Network Manager implemented to simplify managing corresponding networks and their attributes
• GUI: Snapshot Pane rework allowing to manage snapshot attributes, like name and description; reworked snapshot details which looks more clear, corresponds to VM Details pane and reflects current VM state difference according to last snapshot taken
• GUI: Audio settings extended with possibility to enable/disable audio input/output; corresponding changed were done to Audio and Video Capture settings pages; VM Devices menu and status-bar extended with corresponding actions and indicator as well
• GUI: improvements with accessibility support
• GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions, actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610)
• Audio: implemented (optional) device enumeration support for audio backends
• Audio: implemented support for host device callbacks (e.g. when adding or removing an audio device)
• Audio: HDA emulation now uses asynchronous data processing in separate threads
• Audio: implemented ability to enable or disable audio input / output on-the-fly
• Storage: implemented support for CUE/BIN images as CD/DVD media including multiple tracks
• Storage: implemented support for the controller memory buffer feature for NVMe
• Storage: first milestone of the I/O stack redesign landed
• E1000: Fix for Windows XP freeze when booting with unplugged cable
• NAT network: do not skip some port forwarding setup when multiple VMs are active (Windows hosts only; bug #17041)
• Serial: fixed extremely rare misbehavior on VM poweroff
• EFI: better video mode handling, supporting custom video modes and easier configuration (bug #6783)
• BIOS: properly report floppy logical sectors per track for unusual formats
• BIOS: update ATA disk parameter table vectors only if there is actually a corresponding ATA disk attached
• PXE: speed up booting by better handling pending packets when the link is not up yet
• VBoxManage: handle CPUID sub-leaf overrides better
• Windows Additions: fix several 3D related crashes
• Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support jumbo frames
• Linux Additions: on systems using systemd, make sure that only the Guest Additions timesync service is active
• many unlisted fixes and improvements